Introduction to intonational phonetics online appendix to accompany intonational phonology second edition because it is now so easy to carry out acoustic analysis of recorded speech, many studies of intonational phonology are now based on instrumental data of one sort or another. Prosodic hierarchy theory and the autosegmentalmetrical theory of intonational phonology will be presented as the frameworks that account for prosody and intonation and the relation between the two. Jun 2014 focused on prosodic typology, the interface between prosody and the different subareas of linguistics and language. He outlines the evidence for the theorys basic tenets and relates them to the ideas of competing. This 2008 second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research. This dissertation provides experimental evidence for the validity of an intonational phonology. Intonational phonology and politeness in l1 and l2 spanish. Iambic pentameter to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. In standard swedish the h has a specific alignment with the beginning of the stressed vowel, while the following l is to some extent contextually sensitive but does not occur later than the poststress syllable. The dissertation provides a description of the tonal and intonational pitch patterns observed among these speakers. Sahaptin intonational phonology sharon hargus virginia beavert. The discussion will be based on experimental data and will evaluate. The book concludes with a chapter on the methodology of studying intonation from data collection to analysis and a chapter which proposes a new way of characterizing the intonation of the worlds languages. This topic deserves further investigation, specially concerning the perception of the global and nuclear intonational patterns of interrogative sentences and their pragmatic meanings.
However, the intonation of the different varieties of. A flexible approach to the mapping of intonational phrases. Chapter 3 the intonation of northern standard german chapter 4 northern standard german and southern british english. Firth 18901960 at the school of oriental and african studies in london, beginning in the late 1930s. Intonation is a subject of increasing importance in fields from syntax to speech recognition. Hewitt 1995 grammar for trisyllabics in general it is true that the antepenultimate syllable takes the stress for words of more than three syllables, we can say that the stress will predominantly fall on the antepenultimate, though in some cases preference will be for the first syllable to carry it since the stressed syllable is so relatively weakly distinguished from other syllables in. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. The tool we present in this paper belongs to the latter group. The sound patterns of language there are only a dozen or so features needed to describe every speech sound in every human language all the languages in the world sound so different because the way the languages use speech sounds to form patterns differs from language to language. Towards an analysis ofturinese italian intonation and theoretical implications for intonational phonology. Intonational phonology in bengali and english infant. Towards an analysis ofturinese italian intonation and. Perssons 20 research interests cover the wide range of prosody topics of languages in general. Prosody and intonation with a special reference to.
This volume contains detailed surveys of the intonational phonology of fourteen typologically diverse languages, described in the autosegmentalmetrical framework. Intonational phonology find, read and cite all the research you need on. The widely used autosegmentalmetrical theory con tends that the phonological structure of intonation can be expressed with two tonal targets lh tones and derivatives and retrieved from its phonetic im. Tobi, the current standard theory of intonational phonology, describes intonation in terms of twostep mapping from discourse functions onto a single layer of abstract intonation categories, and from this onto a pitch contour usually represented as an f0 contour. Pdf the encoding standards for phonology and intonation are designed to facilitate consistent annotation of the phonological and intonational aspects. In addition there is an associated website with sound files of the example sentences discussed in the book. Tobi labelling, electronic text and accompanying audio example files available at. Pierrehumberts 1980 thesis marked the beginning of a new period in intonational research. The chosen approach is both theoretical and laboratory based, along the lines of laboratory phonology research. Phonological rules account for predictable properties of pronunciation have 3 parts.
Intonational phonology of the regional varieties of italian. Acknowledgements table of contents chapter 1 introduction and background chapter 2 preliminaries i. Intonational phonology of estonian statements with low. The study of spanish and portuguese intonation within the autosegmental metrical am framework has developed substantially over the past 30 years, and recent applications of common methodology make comparative studies more feasible. This wellknown study will continue to appeal to researchers. This paper proposes a phonological analysis of the bengali intonational system, using a descriptive framework developed by pierrehumbert 1980 and others. Pdf on jan 1, 2010, gerard ogrady and others published d. This study makes a foray into the politeness strategies used by english learners of spanish by comparing a corpus of invitations and requests recorded by 14 adult english learners of beginnerlevel spanish as part of their course assignment to the data recorded by 12 native speakers.
Intonational phonology in infantdirected speech sameer ud dowla khan kristine m. A global approach to tonal implementation in a levelbased intonational phonology abstract recent evidence that pitchmovement shape can influence perceived alignment of rising lh pitch accents in several languages appears to challenge the wellestablished levelbased approach to intonation. Intonation is becoming increasingly prominent in areas from phonology to speech recognition. Sahaptin intonational phonology university of washington. We propose that for the syntaxprosody mapping of clauses and intonational phrases, the notion of clause should be determined in a flexible manner, making reference to the highest position to which the verbal material i.
We argue that the bengali facts support a typology of intonational tones that includes only pitch accents and boundary tones, and that the docking sites for boundary tones are the phrase. Ladd gives an exceptionally clear overview of the key ideas of pierrehumberts autosegmentalmetrical theory to intonational phonology, and discusses alternative approaches. Historical development of prosodic analysis an approach to the analysis of phonological structure which differs in fundamental ways from virtually every other 20 th century view was developed by john r. Rearrange individual pages or entire files in the desired order.
Intonational phonology in bengali and english infantdirected speech kristine m. Robert 1994 constraints on the gradient variability of pitch range or pitch level 4 lives. Robert ladd provides an exceptionally clear presentation of the key ideas of the influential autosegmentalmetrical theory of intonational phonology associated with the work of janet pierrehumbert. Chapter three chapter three phonology steven pinker, author of the language instinct, once pointed out that great strides in science often come about by devoting massive research efforts on isolated, apparently simple, yet representative. This module presents the basics of intonational phonology. The native speakers data was collected using discourse completion tests, which elicited offers and requests. Lecture notes introduction to phonology linguistics.
Trochee peter, peter pumpkineater had a wife and couldnt keep her childrens rhymes tyger, tyger, burning bright in the forests of the night william blake. The authors then analyse how intonation patterns work together with other grammatical means such as syntactic constructions and discourse particles in the linguistic marking of a varied set of sentence types and pragmatic meanings. A sounds that undergo the rule b result of the rule c environment where the rule applies a b c a becomes b in the environment c. In addition, there is an associated website with sound files of the example sentences discussed in the book. My impression of the phonology of german is a very positive one. Linguistics and psychology university ofmassachusetts at amherst, 1996 submitted to the department oflinguistics and philosophy in partial fulfillment ofthe requirements for the degree of master ofscience in. The intonational phonology of peninsular spanish and. Unlike the first volume, half of the languages are understudied languages andor researched through fieldwork, and all vary widely in their word prosody as well as their geographic distribution. In addition, there is an associated website with sound files of the example. I especially appreciate the authors willingness to stick out his neck by sometimes providing new solutions to old problems.
Tones can be static, level tones or moving tones, either rising or falling. Bengali intonjational phonology this paper proposes a phonological analysis of the bengali intonational system, using a descriptive framework developed by pierrehumbert 1980 and others. This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research developments since the mid 1990s. Our analysis bears on a number of theoretical points. Cambridge core phonetics and phonology intonational phonology by d. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. This thesis is a detailed investigation of the phonology and phonetics of the intonation of persian carried out in the framework of the am theory of intonational phonology.
Robert ladd skip to main content accessibility help we use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. We know that the basic feature of intonation is pitch, being high or low. Aspects of north swedish intonational phonology 19 stress and no distinctive pitch accent l to the final stress. Based on 2112 utterances read by a total of 8 native speakers, the work, on the one hand, presents a phonological account of the prosodic structure of this language, a.
The phonology of bengali, like that of its neighbouring eastern indoaryan languages, is characterised by a wide variety of diphthongs and inherent back vowels both o and. For online resources including sound files of all examples, click the link, then click resources. It gives a readable and clear treatment of the subject. Intonational patterns of interrogative sentences of. Intonational division of a speech flow in the kazakh language.
A few other dimensions of intonational variation are highlighted by the chapters in prosodic typology ii, especially when the articles are read together as a whole. All files are in ms word format, macintosh version 1998. Intonational phonology cambridge studies in linguistics. English phonetics and phonology fernando trujillo intonation it is not easy to define intonation. Though it was never well defined, firths general position. All chapters provide the prosodic structure and intonational categories of the language as well as a description of focus prosody. In the second decade of the 21st century, moreover, different researchers have carried out the first attempts to describe the diatopic intonational variation of several romance languages from. Sahaptin like a pitch accent language assuming three types of prosodic systems. The discussion focuses on intonational phenomena in indic languages, as these are different from english and other intonational languages cf. Robert ladd this second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research developments since the mid 1990s. In this paper we set out to analyze the intonational phonology of boro, a tone.